St. Patrick's Day

Photos and Observations From The Drunkest Place on Earth: St. Patrick's Day in Dallas

This was my first time braving Greenville for St. Patrick's. I was expecting it to be bad. What I was not expecting was the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah. As I, the only sober person on the entirety of Greenville, struggled through a crowd roughly comparable to the population of Ireland itself (an ... More >>

The Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Snoop Dogg Concert: Everything You Need to Know

Tanqueray-and-chronic time is fast approaching, but you'll need to arm yourself with all the important details before setting off for our sold-out St. Patrick's Day Concert on Saturday, headlined by a little rapper named Snoop Dogg. Here are the answers to your many questions. Got more? Ask them in ... More >>

There's a Special Place in Dallas' Hip-Hop Heart for Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg's St. Patrick's Day Concert is Nearly Sold Out

Long Beach's finest will grace the stage at the Energy Square Parking Lot in two days, and he will not be alone. Fewer than 200 tickets remain for the show as of this writing. So if you'd like to see Snoop Dogg on St. Patrick's Day, hop to it. See also: -There's a Special Place in Dallas' Hip-Hop H ... More >>

Interview with Peter and Cheryl Kenny of The Dubliner, Capitol Pub and The Gin Mill

There's something a bit charming about the Irish. Maybe it has to do with the rich, sometimes mystical, elements of their culture. Like leprechauns, a penchant for being a tad hotheaded, folk songs that can bring everyone in a bar to tears, and Jameson, of course. See also: - Your Ten Point Plan ... More >>

Get More Drunker Again Times

Savor Dallas, Beer Events, Wine Dinners and Other Events for this Week, March 13 - 19(ish)

This week is a doozy. Students are either starting or ending spring break, there's St. Patrick's Day festivities, Savor Dallas, blossoming farmers markets and (thankfully) ambitious chefs. What to do? What to do? Let's evaluate the options. See also: 10-Point Plan for St. Patrick's Day Thursday, ... More >>

A.Dd and Ishi Added to St. Patrick's Day Concert Lineup with Snoop Dogg

As you already know, Snoop Dogg will headline this year's Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert on Greenville Avenue. But he won't be alone, and today we're announcing two of the bands who will also grace the stage on March 16: Hi-diving hip-hop group A.Dd and local staples Ishi. See also: -A ... More >>

Snoop Dogg St. Patrick's Day Tickets are On Sale Now

Snoop Dogg will headline this year's Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert at Energy Square on Greenville Avenue. We'll announce the rest of the lineup soon, but you can buy your tickets right now. They're $15 for general admission ($20 day-of), or there is a VIP option that costs $65. Details a ... More >>

The Snoop Dogg St. Patrick's Day Ticket Presale Starts Today

As you may have heard, his Doggyness will grace the stage at this year's Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day concert. The general on-sale is this Friday, but subscribers to our newsletter can buy them starting at 10 a.m. today. You can subscribe to the newsletter here, but you may miss the presale cod ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Will Headline This Year's Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert

The city of Dallas wants this year's St. Patrick's Day festivities to be a little more "family friendly." It's in that spirit that we make this important announcement: We're bringing Snoop Dogg to the party. The Doggfather will headline the annual Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day concert on the af ... More >>

Which Beers Get You Drunk Without Making You Fat? The Gross Ones, Of Course.

With St. Patty's Day behind us and spring break in the books, summer is just around the corner, which means it's time to get serious about our curvy figures. One of the worst offenders to the best of all diet plans is alcohol. Not only for the calories within each glass, but also for the progressive ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

I Fucking Love St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is coming, y'all. And it's bringing all of its crazy food and drink with it. Don't know about you, but I can't wait. Why? I'm glad I asked.

Our Handy Guide to Surviving St. Patty's Day on Greenville, with Frequently Asked Questions

You know that the St. Patty's Day festivities are happening this weekend along Greenville Avenue, but exactly when do the leprechaun keg stands start? And when is it Irish Car Bomb-thirty? Angela Hunt provided this handy guide to the St. Patrick's Day fun, and the police offered up a list of Freque ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day, I Should Point Out, Sucks

I want to love it like Alice does. I've been looking out my office window and noticing how all the tree buds have filled out; Dallas is awash in a sea of green, and it won't be long before the sun bakes everything into a mottled brown. Why not throw on a green shirt, find a nice pub and drink down 1 ... More >>

Preparing For The Onslaught: This Week In Dallas Food Blogging

Welcome to the longest weekend of your life. Between the parade, block party, concerts (stoked for Ryan Bingham by the way) English breakfasts, cabbage dinners, green beers, Irish pubs, whiskey shots, sunshine, crowds, food truck parties and other happenings, there's a good chance some of us will ne ... More >>

Preview: Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses at Energy Square

Saturday, March 17, at Energy Square

A St. Patty's Day Parade Pop-Up Food Park Prevents Death This Weekend

No need to shove string cheese and corn chips down your pants for the St. Patty's Day parade this Saturday. The kind folks at Madison Partners will bestow upon throngs of sloppy drunks the St. Patty's Day Pop Up Food Park. Trucks from Il Cane Rosso, Nammi, Easy Slider, Trailercakes and Ruthie's Ro ... More >>

Reminder: Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses Headline The Observer's St. Patrick's Day Concert on Saturday

We were all scared there for a while, weren't we? Earlier this year, it looked like the 33-year-old Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade might not happen, due to increasing fees and inadequate funds putting a kink in our beer-filled garden hose. And then Mark Cuban rolled out of bed, decided h ... More >>

The Village at Fairview Hosts Franconia Beer Walk Tonight

Any time St Patrick's Day falls on a weekend, you know you're in for trouble. It's just like that friend you have whose birthday always seems to stretch into a week-long celebration while everyone else is content to have a single dinner out with friends. St Patrick's Day on Saturday essentially mean ... More >>

Run, Watch, Get Sloshed. St. Patty's!

Less Irish Luck, More Scottish Nightmare

At Parkit Market, Sitting Front Row for the Greenville St. Patrick's Day Parade

When Frank and Ann Todora opened the Parkit Market 50 years ago at the corner of Greenville Avenue and University, it was mostly surrounded by pastures. Greenville was a small, two-lane road and what is now Central Expressway was even smaller. There was one lone power line running down Greenville, n ... More >>

We Gave NHS Tavern a Big Box of Crap and They Made Us St. Patty's Day Drinks

Last week, we asked Neighborhood Services Tavern mixologist Craig Cottier to use the ingredients in our The Box (shown below) to make us three St. Patrick's Day-appropriate drinks that don't taste like Hulk splooge. Yep. Somewhere in those drinks is a russet potato, mint jelly and weird, carbonate ... More >>

Kiss Me, I'm Texan

Can Neighborhood Services Tavern Turn This Green Box of Crap Into Awesome St. Patrick's Day Booze Drinks?

Welcome to the return of The Box. Last time, Matt McCallister turned the ingredients from the box into a bunch of awesome Super Bowl appetizers. This time, we gave our big box of crap to Craig Cottier, the surprisingly unbearded drink-mixer-man at Neighborhood Services Tavern. (Seriously, can you mi ... More >>

It's Going to Be Harder to Park Near Lower Greenville Come St. Patrick's Day

A small piece of the map showing St. Patrick's Day no-parking restrictions, which extend south to Lewis and east to Skillman​It's gettin' close to the most wonderful time of the year for the Barking Dog -- St. Patrick's Day, which is about a month away. Over the weekend, Avi Adelman posted to his ... More >>

The Race Is On to Save the 2012 Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade

About 34 seconds after we reported Friday evening that the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade was on life support, reader Julie C left the first of 93 comments, and she spoke for plenty of those who followed: "NO NO NO! I live for this every year!" As the news spread, livers across the cit ... More >>

Get Your Parade On, For the Kids

Psst, Over Here. It's the Perfectly - Painless? - Excuse to Watch Some March Madness Today

​If St. Patrick's Day wasn't a good enough excuse to let the boss man cut you loose early to go drinking, perhaps you should consider a vasectomy. That's right, you heard me. Dallas urologist Dr. Mitch Moskowitz is offering his version of March Madness, in the form of a vasectomy ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Toadies, Ume, Ishi, True Widow and Here Holy Spain at Saturday's Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert

The Toadies, Ume, Ishi, True Widow and Here Holy Spain at the Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Party Saturday, March 12, 2011 Energy Square Better than: Sitting for hours in one spot, getting drunk and watching the parade. Danny FulgencioThe Toadies' Vaden Todd Lewis​The sea of green stretched ... More >>

Picture Show: The Toadies at The St. Patrick's Day Concert

Danny Fulgencio"I Come From the Water" is perfect for crowdsurfing. See more in Danny's slideshow.​Yesterday was a banner day for North Texas music nerds. Without doing too much self-horn tooting, the St. Patrick's Day Concert--just outside the parade--presented some completely killer sets from lo ... More >>

Good Friday: 35 Conferette, Toadies, Slobberbone, The Civil Wars, ADd , Big Hud, Drowning Pool, Mint Condition, Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils & More!

​As we've reported, Denton's 35 Conferette is well underway, and the first set of reviews have already trickled in. We'll have plenty more for you as the festival continues on over the weekend, so if you find yourself with a little extra dough, head north for the weekend. But if you'd rather stay ... More >>

Grab Your Green Hat! More Ideas for Celebrating St. Patrick's Day Early

He's got his green hat. Got yours?​Unless you're hanging out at Charlie Sheen's Sober Valley Ranch tomorrow and trying to stay, um, sober, you're not going to want to miss our St. Patrick's Day Concert featuring the Toadies, Ishi and more. But if you're not going to make it to our party, we've got ... More >>

Going For Green

Party with Us This Saturday at Our Annual St. Pat's Concert

​ Well, the rumors are partially true: cops are cracking down on inebriated partiers on and around Greenville Avenue during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade by enforcing a state law that prohibits open containers within 18 feet from a public right-of-way. They claim they don't want to spoil a ... More >>

Dallas PD's St. Paddy's Day Do's and Don'ts

From Angela Hunt's 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade and Party slideshow​It would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick's Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further th ... More >>

Tonight: Party With Us at the First-Ever Observer Tweet-Up Party

​We don't like to brag, but we can throw some pretty awesome parties. From St. Patrick's Day festivities to the Music Awards, our events are always memorable, even if you had too many Jell-O shots and passed out in a stranger's yard on the M Streets. Tonight we're throwing a bash that you won' ... More >>

Flogging Molly Is Changing. And, Not.

The Toadies Return To Headline Annual Observer-Hosted St. Patrick's Day Concert

​After a three-year hiatus, the Toadies will return to headline the annual Observer-hosted St. Patrick's Day Concert on Greenville Avenue, which this year will take place on Saturday, March 12. As in previous years, with last year's festivities serving as a rare exception, this year's concert will ... More >>

Addison Goes Kaboom!

Irish Suds Are Smiling

When Blarney Meets Stone

All Hail The Saint Of Drinking

Come party right with the Dallas Observer

Green Day

Shamrocks float down Greenville Avenue

Wonka Mania

Slappy's tackles the candyman

Want a Little Irish in Ya?

Learn to stir-fry shamrocks at Neiman's

Float On

Parade 101 with St. Patrick himself

Being Avi Adelman

One man fights bars on Lower Greenville, while others urge compromise